About Us

Victoria University, is one of the best universities in Uganda, and stands out as a centre of academic excellence. We offers a fresh and intellectually stimulating environment that nurtures critical thinkers.The university was opened in August 2010 and has has the capacity, the facilities and determination to revitalize higher education in Uganda and in the region. We are committed to playing a leading role in bringing and developing high– quality, student–centered learning opportunities based on standards of excellence that are unique, innovative and difficult to match.

The university is centrally located in the heart of Kampala City and on the main public transportation routes coupled with ample parking space.Victoria University is part of Ruparelia Group of Companies, which has a strong presence in the education sector in Uganda and has under its portfolio, Kampala International School Uganda, Kampala Parents School and Delhi Public School International.

Victoria University is a cosmopolitan university with a wide range of nationalities. With a reputation as the best private, forward thinking and modern university in East Africa, Victoria University offers a vibrant and stimulating environment to further your studies. Our programmes are designed to meet all of your needs - study or research a subject in greater depth, or aiming to extend your knowledge and skills in pursuit of your career ambitions.

Vision

To become a center of excellence for higher education.

Mission

To transform the lives of our students and advance Africa and beyond through our teaching and learning, diversity and inclusion, discovery, research and creativity, promotion of health, and deep community engagement.

Dr Aliker, the Chancellor of Victoria University Uganda served as the first chancellor of Gulu University, a public university in northern Uganda between 2004 and 2014 before he became the chancellor of Victoria University. Dr Aliker was born in Gulu District in the Northern part of Uganda. He had his elementary education in Gulu and Gulu High School for his Ordinary Level. Later, he joined Kings College Budo in Mpigi District in central Uganda for his Advanced Level studies.

In 1948, he attended Makerere University for his further education. While still studying at Makerere, he got a scholarship to go and study Political Science at Northwestern University in Illinois, Chicago in the United States of America. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Political Science.

He was later awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study Dental Surgery still at Northwestern and upon completing this course of study, was awarded a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree. He enrolled for the Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), a qualification conferred by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Dr Aliker returned to Uganda where he was employed as a government dental surgeon. After years in the public service, he went into private practices; he set up the first private dental clinic owned by a black in Uganda.

Dr Aliker is also a businessman, entrepreneur as well as a community leader. He is a senior adviser to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Dr. Aliker has sat on the board of nearly forty companies in Uganda. Among many other companies, Dr Aliker is a shareholder in Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited, Uganda Clays Limited, Nation Media Group, National Insurance Corporation and East African Breweries. These companies are listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange. He is the Chairman of Uganda Clays Limited. He also sits on the “Acting East African Advisory Board”, the private equity firm of the United Kingdom’s Commonwealth Development Corporation. He has been the chairman of the Board of Trustees of Makerere Unversity Endowment Fund since July 2014.

Over the past three years, we have grown significantly while retaining a supportive social and academic community, which makes Victoria University a great place to study, to research and to work. At Victoria University, outstanding research based teaching and learning and exceptional education takes place across the broadest possible range of disciplines.
From Humanities and Social sciences, to Human Sciences. Science and Technology, Business and Management to Oil and Gas.
We take our commitment to research-led teaching very seriously and our staff are expected to be great researchers and great teachers.
Our curriculum is regularly updated by the latest research; and our students undertake research themselves. I have constantly felt the university is not only a world of knowledge, demanding to find new ways of solving global problems, but I also intensely feel that that knowledge has to affect the neighborhood before you solve the global problems. The challenges we face right next door to Victoria University is the most important one.
In 2018, we shall launch a new bold strategy to take us to 2021, based on a clear vision to become the center of excellence for higher education.
We welcome your interest in Victoria University and hope you find the information you are looking for on our website, Twitter and Facebook pages. If you are in Kampala and the surrounding districts you have an open invitation to visit us and to meet staff and students.

Victoria University looks to lead by example in everything we do. Our aim is to set the standard as the world-class university of the future by combining knowledge, research, and innovation to create solutions that few institutions have the depth and breadth to achieve.